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While Whatsapp remains the chat app of choice among Singaporeans, Telegram has been fast rising as an app to be reckoned with.

Recently, we wrote about an NSF-built Telegram bot that, like the most on-the-ball friend you could have, pushes us notifications whenever MRT lines experience a disruption.

More than just a chat platform, Telegram has been an enabler of such bots and even channels, which, as compared to the one-on-one nature of bots, is a tool to broadcast public messages to large audiences.

Channels can also have an unlimited number of members, and new members would also be able to see the entire message history in a channel once they join.

With the rising attention and usage of the app, it's probably then no surprise that our Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong also decided to jump onto the platform to better reach out to Singaporeans - especially smartphone-toting millennials.

NOT A SURPRISING JUMP

PM Lee is no social media recluse, and often shares both important announcements and snippets of his daily life on his Facebook page.